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More rain is on the way. Fresh corruption allegations that soccers governing body. Fifa says its former president and inner circle made 80 million through suspicious payments. Sarah im sarah kelly. Welcome to the program. We begin with a grim reality, people have washed up on a beach in the libyan city. In a tragic day for mediterranean migrants, another nine bodies were pulled from the sea after a boat capsized near crete. Greek authorities rescued 340 others. Despite the dangers, desperate att...

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The cash-strapped South African Football Association lost out on a cut of billions of rands being distributed to the victims of Fifa’s graft scandal.

The cash-strapped South African Football Association has lost out on a cut of billions of rand distributed to the victims of FIFA's graft scandal – seemingly because the association denies it was swindled out of $10 million.

A Swiss court has ruled that the way FIFA fired its acting secretary-general Markus Kattner in 2016, when the scandal-ridden body dismissed him without notice over allegations of financial mismanagement, was unjustified

Sacking without notice was “considered as unjustified”

Backed by FIFAs tacit support, Bashar al-Assads government in Syria has woven soccer into its grisly campaign of oppression, tearing apart a generation of players.

2015 FIFA corruption scandal, bribery and corruption scandal involving the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the governing body of international football (soccer). More than two dozen FIFA officials and their associates were implicated in a 24-year self-enrichment scheme that reached the highest levels of FIFA management. Central to the scandal were accusations of bribery connected to the awarding of hosting rights for the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 World Cu...

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The Swiss prosecutor's office has called for former FIFA President Sepp Blatter and former UEFA President Michel Platini to be handed suspended jail sentences of one year and eight months in relation to a CHF2 million (£1.6 million/$2 million/€1.9 million) in 2011.